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BOOTSTRAPPED : against self-reliance and towards a better life
ALISSA QUART - ECCO
Format: Hardcover
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An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed an American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less equal, less healthy, less productive, and less fulfilledThe promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story... |
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Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement
Toufah Jallow - Truth to Power
Format: Paperback
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brings to mind the Amanda Gorman and Greta ThunbergBefore launching an unprecedented protest movement, Toufah Jallow was just a 19-year-old dreaming of a scholarship. Encouraged by her mother to pursue her own ambitions, Toufah entered a presidential competition purportedly designed to identify... |
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Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Rachel B. Vogelstein - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Since 2017, millions have joined the global movement known as #MeToo, catalyzing an unprecedented wave of women's activism powered by technology that reaches across borders, races, religions, and economic divides. Today, women in more than 100 countries are using the hashtag to fight... |
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A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration,... |
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race
Nicole Perlroth - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break in and scamper through the world's computer networks invisibly until discovered. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to tap into any iPhone, dismantle safety controls at a chemical plant,... |
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The Gutfeld Monologues: Classic Rants from the Five
GREG GUTFELD - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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An interactive and annotated collection of Fox News star and New York Times bestselling author Greg Gutfeld's sharp, hilarious monologues on everything from politics to pop culture - updated with new commentary for the current day."Wherever I go, I am hit repeatedly by the same... |
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The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
Peter Baker - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Co-authored by the Chief White House correspondent at The New York Times and the Washington columnist at the The New Yorker, this is a biography any would-be power broker must own: the story of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III, the man who ran Washington... |
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The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America
Katherine Turk - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The history of NOW -- its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission -- told through the work of three members.. In the summer of 1966, crammed into a DC hotel suite and passing paper cups of liquor, twenty-eight women hatched a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author... |
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